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Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. - John Locke

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

OK, if you can get an indepartial judge. - Archie Bunker

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. - Steven Wright

A flagrant violation of international law. - Unknown

Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies. - Arabian Proverb

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice. - Plato

Alimony is always having to say you're sorry. - Philip Simborg

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. - Leo Tolstoy

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

Law of the Supermarket: The other line moves faster. - Unknown

Stop soft soapin' and trying to deterge the judge! - Archie Bunker

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. - Jeremy Bentham

You're breakin' about 18 laws, maybe even a dozen. - Archie Bunker

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore. - Unknown

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. - African Proverb

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius

My photographs don't do me justice – they just look like me. - Phyllis Diller

Marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. - Quentin Crisp

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. - Ralph Nader

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo

The laws of probability - so true in general, so fallacious in particular. - Edward Gibbon

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers. - Richard Pryor

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. - Alan Dershowitz

A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. - Patrick Murray

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D.H. Lawrence

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Homer Simpson

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. - Daniel Webster

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. - Eugene V Debs

The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honour, who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?" - Steven Wright